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lying
I'd be lying to you if I said that it's just another game. It really isn't. Ebenezer Ekuban
lying
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a blow. Andy Pettitte
lying moving hunting
As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity. Richard Page
lying teaching views
The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction — a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory — who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unfashionable point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself. Richard P. Feynman
lying intellectual quests
Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Richard Hofstadter
lying skills ideas
To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.
lying hate people
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition. Rebecca West
lying book reading
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. Umberto Eco
lying book reflection
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.
memorable character long
Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again. Rob Sheffield
memorable squares years
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. William Kunstler
memorable airports perfection
Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura. William Faulkner
memorable ideas people
I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people. Robin Williams
memorable airports wife
I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'
memorable possessed possessing
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. Sara Teasdale
memorable thinking people
Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.
memorable sea wife
The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives) Rod Stewart
memorable thinking names
I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started? Zsa Zsa Gabor
faults bears
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? Juvenal
faults rivalry feels
I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault. Rob Corddry
faults admitting made
He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist. Truman Capote
faults blame virtue
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone. William Wordsworth
faults
I love my beauty. It's not my fault. Valentino Garavani
faults want persons
If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. Robert Louis Stevenson
faults alive i-am-alive
Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.
faults neutrality helping
Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty. William Penn
faults absence stillness
The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness. Hazrat Inayat Khan